Soda-water apparatus



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet- 1. W. H. COLLINS. SODA WATER APPARATUS.

No. 484,889. Patented Oct. 25, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E- WILLIAM H. COLLINS, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

SODA-'WA'TER-APPARATU.S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent m ress, dated October 25, 1892. Application filed June 13, 1892. Serial No. 436,528- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. COLLINS,

connection with the accompanying drawings,-

is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for dispensing soda-Water; and it consists in certain novel features of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, which will be readily understood by reference to the description of the accompanying drawings, and to the claims at the end of this specification, in which my invention is clearly pointed out.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front elevation of a soda-water apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 00 a; on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a partial vertical section on line y-y on Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a partial vertical section on line 2 e on Fig. 1.

In soda-water apparatus as heretofore constructed when a large number of different sirups were required to be used it was necessary to make the casing in which the apparatus was inclosed of such great length that it was often impossible or at least very inconvenient to spare the amount of space required for placing the apparatus, and as it is now very common to use fifteen or twenty different sirups it becomes very desirable, and is the object of my invention, to so arrange the soda apparatus that a greater number of sirup cans or tanks maybe employed without increasing the length or depth of the inclosing casing. To this end 1 construct my sodawater apparatus as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- A is the main body of the outer casing, provided with the rectangular openings A and A in its front and having the hinged lid A in its top, said casing being preferably made of marble.

B is an inner casing, also provided with two rectangular openings B and B in its front wall and having the removable cover or lid B as shown in Fig. 2.

The casing B is made of such a size relative to the casing A that when the two are placed in position, one within the other, there shall be an air-space all around the inner cas- I ing'a'nd between it and the outer casing, as shown in Figs. .2, 3, and 4.

The inner casing B is divided into a series of compartments 0, D, and E by the plates a, b, c,and d, the upper compartment 0 containing the cooling-pipes e and f and the ice 9, the plate a, which forms the bottom of said compartment, being inclined toward the rear, as shown, and said compartment is provided with the drain-pipe h to convey away the water produced from the melting of the ice. Upon each of the plates 1) and c, forming the floors of the compartments D and E, respectively, are mounted in inclined positions a series of rectangular sirup cans or tanks F and F, respectively, the lower series F occupying the whole length of the chamber E, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. A smaller number of siruptanks F are placed in the chamber D in order to provide spaces at G, G, and G2 for the draft-cocks H, H, and H and the pipes i, z", and 71 leading therefrom to the coolers e and f, and through which soda-water or mineral water may be drawn. has formed on its front enda suitable neckj, in which is screwed the cock Lbetween acollar on which and said neck is clamped arectangular plate It, which serves to close a section of the opening A or A as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4:. The rear ends of the sirup-tanks are raised above the floor-plates h and c to facilitate the proper drainage of said tanks by means of chocks or saddles Z, and said tanks are prevented from coming in contact with each other by the division-ribs m and 97., secured, respectively, to the floor-plates h and c and the plates at and d, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. By this arrangement of theice-chamber in the top of the casing and providing it with a supplementary cover 13 the ice may be made to last much longerthan heretofore, and by means of the drain-pipe h said chamber is perfectly drained without in the least fouling the chambers containing the siruptanks, and by the arrangement of the siruptanks in two banks or series, one above the other, I am able to employ twenty sirup-tanks in a casing only three and one-half feet in length instead of six feet in length, as would Each of the sirup-tanks be required if the same number of tank'swere arranged iii a single bank or sei'ies, as heretofore practiced.

The plates 70 is, secured to the necks of the sirup-tanks, are made of such dimensions that when all the sirup-tanks are in position said plates entirely close the opening A and all of the opening A except the three spaces G, G, and G which are closed by cbrrespohdihg plates J, J, and J to which are secured the draft-cocks H, H, and H respectively, and either of the sirup-cans can be readily with drawn by slightly lifting its front end and then drawing it forward, using its cock I as a handle. i

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In asoda-water apparatus, the combination of an outer casing having a door lin its top and two rectangular openings in its front, an inner casingdivided h'oriontall'y iht'o three compartments, the upper compartment having a removable cover and an inclined fiodr and each of the other compartments having a rectangular opening in its front, coolingpipes arranged in said upper chamber, adr'aft cook or cooks for drawing liquid from said cooler-pipes, arranged below the level thereof, a series of sirup-tanks arranged in each of the chambers D and E and adapted to be each tion ofthe' casings A and B, provided with the front openings A and A and B and B respectively, the casing B beingdivided horiman into three compartments or chambers C,- D, and E, the cooler-pipes e fin the chamher 0, the soda-draft cocks arranged below the bottom of said chamber 0, the ribs m and n in the chambers D and E, the two series of shim-tank F and F, arranged in the chainbers D' and E, respectively, and adapted to be withdrawn throug'hthe openings A B and A B ahd each provided with the neck j,'the cock I, arid the plate k, se'ctir'ed to then'eck of each tank, 'sub'stahtiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two shbscribihg witnesses, on this 9th day of WILLIAM H. COLLINS.

Witnesses;

o. LOMBARD, A.- D. SIMPSON. 

